Product Counsel Program Manager
Our Company
At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.
What You’ll Do
Teradata is launching a new Product Counsel function, which will guide the development, launch, and lifecycle management of innovative technology products. The Product Counsel team is pivotal in ensuring regulatory compliance, managing legal risk, and protecting Teradata’s intellectual property, while enabling business growth and product excellence. Success in this role looks like being embedded early in product decision-making, anticipating legal and regulatory issues before they become blockers, and enabling teams to ship compliant, differentiated products and services agilely.
As the function’s Project Manager, you will be the connective tissue across teams, enabling the Product Counsel function to operate efficiently, prioritize effectively, track commitments, and deliver high-quality business partnership. This role will work closely with Product Counsel, Privacy, Security, Product Management, and Engineering stakeholders to build scalable processes, manage cross-functional programs, drive operational excellence, and ensure that legal input is consistently integrated into the product development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities include:
_Program, Process and Knowledge Management
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- Develop, implement, and maintain operational processes and workflows for the Product Counsel function.
- Build mechanisms for tracking legal reviews, escalations, approvals, and deliverables across product teams.
- Manage intake processes, SLAs, work queues, and cross-functional communications.
- Partner with Legal Ops (if applicable) to align on tooling, metrics, and governance.
- Develop and maintain templates, playbooks, guidance materials, and self-service resources. service resources.
_Product Development Lifecycle Integration
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- Ensure Product Counsel is integrated into product roadmapping, and release cycles.
- Maintain visibility into product timelines, launches, and changes that may trigger legal review.
- Coordinate between engineering, product managers, and Product Counsel to ensure timely legal engagement.
_Program Execution & Cross-Functional Coordination
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- Partner with Product Counsel and the Law Team to identify emerging regulatory and risk themes impacting product strategy.
- Help translate legal risk positions into scalable operational frameworks and playbooks.
- Assist in framing structured risk tradeoff discussions for leadership, including preparation of decision materials.
- Coordinate closely with Product Counsel Contract Manager to ensure alignment between product-level legal decisions and downstream commercial execution.
- Drive recurring cross-functional meetings, including agendas, materials, and followups.
- Serve as the operational liaison between Product Counsel and other internal functions (Product, Engineering, Privacy, InfoSec, Compliance, Go-to-Market, etc. ).
- Own cross-functional initiative tracking, ensuring that legal requirements or changes are implemented.
- Support alignment with privacy, regulatory, and security frameworks relevant to products.
_Metrics, Reporting, & Insights
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- Define and track KPIs for the Product Counsel function (e. g. , cycle time, review volumes, SLA adherence).
- Create dashboards and periodic reporting for leadership.
- Use data to identify operational bottlenecks and recommend improvements.
Who You’ll Work With
Sitting at the intersection of innovation and integrity, Teradata’s Product Counsel Program Manager will serve as a bridge between Teradata’s law and product engineering organizations. You will collaborate closely with product teams and leaders of other legal functions – including our compliance, commercial, and IP teams. In this role, you will report directly to the Vice President of Law, Chief Privacy, Ethics & Compliance Counsel. At Teradata, we place high value on the well-being of our legal professionals and foster a culture that supports a healthy work/life balance.
What Makes You a Qualified Candidate
- 5–8+ years of program or project management experience, ideally within tech, SaaS, cloud, or legal/compliance-oriented environments.
- Proven experience building and operationalizing cross-functional programs.
- Strong understanding of product development and engineering workflows (e. g. , agile, DevOps).
- Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work across legal, privacy, engineering, and product teams.
- Experience with productivity and workflow tools (JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, \etc. ).
What You’ll Bring
- Background in product operations, legal operations, or technical program management to help set the Product Counsel Function up for success.
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks relevant to AI products and systems, as well as general privacy regulations and how they apply to tech products (e. g. , GDPR, CPRA, EU AI Act, Open Source)
- Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage a high-volume workload in a fast-paced and demanding work environment and have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Bias and drive for action, learning and problem solving; a service-focused approach.
- Collaborative teammate and able to work independently.
Why We Think You’ll Love Teradata
We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.
Teradata invites all identities and backgrounds in the workplace. We work with deliberation and intent to ensure we are cultivating collaboration and inclusivity across our global organization. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
